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Eugene Agichtein
 Associate Professor
Sloan Research Fellow
Mathematics & Computer Science Department,   Emory University
 Affiliate appointments: Department of Biomedical Informatics, and the Linguistics Program
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Contact information:
Web: http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~eugene/
E-mail: eugene at mathcs dot emory dot edu
 Telephone: (404) 727-7962  Fax: (404) 727-5611
Office: E500 (5th floor), Emerson Hall		  
Mailing Address:
Eugene Agichtein
Math & CS Department, Emory University
400 Dowman Drive, Suite W401
Atlanta, Georgia    30322,  USA
News
  • Postdoc position available for NIH-supported project on web-based detection of cognitive impairment
  • Congratulations to IRLab's Denis Savenkov, Dmitry Lagun, and Qiaoling Liu on winning the WSCD 2013 Switch Prediction Challenge!
  • Congratulations to IRLab's Dmitry Lagun on winning the Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Award!
  • I co-chaired WSDM 2012. The proceedings are now available in DBLP.
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    Research
    I lead the Emory Intelligent Information Access Lab (IRLab). We work on information retrieval and text and data mining, developing techniques for mining online user behavior and interactions in web search and online social networks, large-scale content analysis and information extraction, and on applications of these techniques to medical informatics.

    Students and Researchers:

    Teaching
      Spring 2013: CS370 - Software Engineering Practicum
                        CS190  - The Web: Concepts and Technologies

    Previous
    CS 190 - CS 190 - The Web: Concepts and Technologies: Spring 2009, Spring 2010
    CS 170 - Introduction to Computer Science I: Fall 2009, Fall 2010
    CS 171     - Introduction to Computer Science II: Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Fall 2011
     CS 730 - Topics in Text Mining for Social Media and Collaboratively Generated Content: Fall 2010
    CS 571 - Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Text Mining: Fall 2007
    CS 572 - Information Retrieval and Web Search: Fall 2006, Fall 2008, Spring 2010
     Sept 2009: RuSSIR'09 mini-course on Modeling Searcher Behavior
    Recent Professional Service
      Editorial Board: Journal of Information Retrieval (JIR)
    Area Chair: SIGIR Conf. on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2008-2013).
    Area Chair: International Conference on World Wide Web, Behavioral Analysis and Personalization (WWW 2013)
    Senior PC/Area Chair: AAAI Conference on Web Logs and Social Media (ICWSM 2013).
    Senior PC/Area Chair: Conference on Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2012).
    Co-Chair,     The First Workshop on Community Question Answering on the Web  (CQA 2012) at WWW 2012.
     
    Selected Publications
      Web search: intent inference and user behavior modeling
     Beyond Dwell Time: Estimating Document Relevance from Cursor Movements and other Searcher Behavior in [WWW 2012]
    Find It If You Can: Modeling Web Search Success Using Interaction Data in [SIGIR 2011] best paper award
    Ready to Buy or Just Browsing? Detecting Web Searcher Goals from Interaction Data in [SIGIR 2010]
    Towards Predicting Web Searcher Gaze Position from Mouse Movements in [CHI 2010]
     Improving Web Search Ranking by Incorporating User Behavior Information in [SIGIR 2006]
    Learning User Interaction Models for Predicting Web Search Result Preferences in [SIGIR 2006]
     
      Mining and searching social media/collaboratively generated content
    A Word at a Time: Computing Word Relatedness using Temporal Semantic Analysis [WWW 2011]
    Using the past to score the present: Extending Term Weighting Models with Revision History Analysis [CIKM 2010]
    Learning to Recognize Reliable Users and Content in Social Media with Coupled Mutual Reinforcement [WWW 2009]
    Predicting Information Seeker Satisfaction in Community Question Answering [SIGIR 2008]
    Finding the Right Facts in the Crowd: Factoid Question Answering over Social Media     [WWW 2008]
     Finding High Quality Content in Social Media [WSDM 2008]
     
      Information extraction and text mining
     SIGKDD invited webcast: Towards Web-Scale Information Extraction (webcast recording here), March 2007
        based in part on our KDD 2006 Tutorial on Scalable Information Extraction and Integration
     Snowball: Extracting Relations from Large Plain-Text Collections [ACM DL 2000]
    Querying Text Databases for Efficient Information Extraction  [ICDE 2003] best student paper award
    Mining Reference Tables for Automatic Text Segmentation, [KDD 2004]
    To Search or to Crawl: Towards a Query Optimizer for Text-Centric Tasks [SIGMOD 2006] best paper award
    Biographical Sketch
    Eugene Agichtein is an Associate Professor in the Math and Computer Science department at Emory University, and is on the core faculty of the Emory Biomedical Informatics program. Dr. Agichtein founded and leads the Emory Intelligent Information Access Laboratory (IR Lab). Eugene's general research interests are in web search and information retrieval, text and data mining, and human-computer interaction, with a key focus on medical informatics and social media applications. Eugene received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University, and a B.S. in Engineering from The Cooper Union. Eugene is a Sloan Research Fellow, a member of the DARPA Computer Science Study Group, and a recipient of three best paper awards, most recently at the SIGIR 2011 conference. His work has been supported by grants from DARPA, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation, and by gifts from Cisco, Google, HP Labs, Microsoft, Motorola, the Sloan Foundation, and Yahoo! Labs.

    Miscellaneous:
    I am an avid runner.  I am grateful to have safely finished the 2013 Boston Marathon .

    Last updated: January 2013